Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Eglinton

HUGH MONTGOMERY Earl of Eglinton

The Scots Peerage III: pp. 434-8 for the family of Hugh, Earl of Eglinton

Death

Hugh, Earl of Eglinton, made his will at Eglinton, on 23 September 1545, died there between that date and 3 October same year. The Scots Peerage III: 435

Genealogy

The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms. Volume III. (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1906), 618 pp.

Biographical Summary

Hugh, third Lord Montgomerie (1460-1545), was created Earl of Eglinton in 1508, having previously entered upon a feud with the Earl of Glencairn, which long continued between their descendants, and occasionally broke forth in deeds of violence, such as the burning of Eglinton in 1528. Hugh, fourth earl, a youth of singular promise, had enjoyed his inheritance only ten mouths when he fell a victim to this hereditary feud. Riding from his own castle towards Stirling on 20 April 1586, he was, near the bridge of Annick, waylaid and shot by David Cunningham of Robertland and other Cunninghams, emissaries of the Earl of Glencairn.'

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